RLE SDK beta wheels and registry json

[farhann1]

Beta release of azure-ai-projects[rle].

• Available versions and wheel downloads

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🟡 Changes recommended

The registry format and location are incompatible with the installer linked in the PR description.

1 open finding

• RLE manifest channel and artifact path mismatch · New

What changed in this PR

Adds an RLE beta release registry for azure-ai-projects.

Changes:

• Registers 2.7.0b1 as the latest RLE wheel.
• Provides its download URL and SHA-256 checksum.

File	Description
sdk/​ai/​azure-ai-projects/​rle/​registry.json	Defines the RLE release registry and wheel metadata.

🧠 Review effort: Balanced

[Copilot]

🟡 Changes recommended

The new release installer lacks automated coverage for its validation and installation paths.

1 open finding

• Add installer tests for manifest resolution and failure handling · New

1 resolved since last review

• RLE manifest channel and artifact path mismatch

🧠 Review effort: Balanced

[Copilot]

🟢 Approval recommended

No blocking issues remain, and the available review evidence confirms that wheel checksums and package metadata match the registry.

1 open issue

• Add installer tests for manifest resolution and failure handling

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[Pilot] PR Pipeline Failure Analysis

What failed

Three checks are failing on PR #49488 (head 1895403), all traceable to the new sdk/ai/azure-ai-projects/rle/ directory:

1. Verify Links (GitHub Actions) — run 39379992274
sdk/ai/azure-ai-projects/rle/README.md has a relative link [manifest](registry.json) that resolves to a missing local path and is also flagged for using a relative link while link guidance is enforced for this new file.

2. python - pullrequest → Docwarden readme check (Azure Pipelines build 6977886)
sdk/ai/azure-ai-projects/rle/README.md is missing the required headers (Getting started, Key concepts, Examples, Troubleshooting, Next steps, Contributing, and the Azure ... client library for Python title line) mandated by eng/.docsettings.yml's required_readme_sections.

3. python - pullrequest (Build Analyze) → verifywhl check (same Azure Pipelines build)
The built wheel azure_ai_projects-2.9.0-py3-none-any.whl has an unexpected top-level directory rle at its root (alongside the azure namespace package), which verify_whl_root_directory in eng/tools/azure-sdk-tools/azpysdk/verify_whl.py rejects.

Relevant pipeline output

# Doc Warden
/sdk/ai/azure-ai-projects/rle/README.md is missing headers with patterns:
 * ^Azure (.+ client library for Python|Smoke Test for Python|AI Agent Server Adapter for .*Python)
 * ^Getting started$
 * ^Key concepts$
 * ^Examples$
 * ^Troubleshooting$
 * ^Next steps$
 * ^Contributing$

# Verify Links
Here are the diff files:
    sdk/ai/azure-ai-projects/rle/README.md
Checking 1 links found on page (redacted)
Summary of broken links:
'.../rle/README.md' has 1 broken link(s):
  registry.json

# verifywhl
[azure-ai-projects :: verifywhl] [ERROR] azure-sdk-tools: whl has following incorrect directory at root level [['rle']]
[azure-ai-projects :: verifywhl] [ERROR] azure-sdk-tools: Failed to verify whl for package azure-ai-projects
verifywhl check completed with exit code 1

Recommended next steps

• In sdk/ai/azure-ai-projects/rle/README.md: replace the relative [manifest](registry.json) link with an absolute URL (e.g. the rle-releases branch raw URL used elsewhere in the PR), and add the required Doc Warden sections (Azure ... client library for Python title, Getting started, Key concepts, Examples, Troubleshooting, Next steps, Contributing) — or add this path to eng/.docsettings.yml's omitted_paths/known_presence_issues if this directory is intentionally not a standard package README. Alternatively, add sdk/ai/azure-ai-projects/rle/** to eng/common/scripts/allow-relative-links.txt if the relative link itself is acceptable (the missing-file resolution still needs fixing).
• The rle/ directory (containing install_rle_sdk.py, registry.json, and wheels/) should not be packaged inside the azure-ai-projects wheel's build output or should be excluded from the sdist/wheel build (e.g. via MANIFEST.in/setup.py package_data/exclude_package_data or by moving these release-manifest files outside the package root so setuptools/build backend doesn't pick up rle as a top-level directory). Verify locally with python -m azpysdk.main verifywhl --isolate sdk/ai/azure-ai-projects after the fix.
• See https://aka.ms/ci-fix

Automated fix: Requested

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